APPENDIX VIII. 

 Finance, Propeety, Supplies, and Accounts. 



The appropriations for the tiscal year ending .Tune 30, IS!)."), were as 

 follows : 



For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 

 lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 

 ment and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all 

 necessary employees, $143,000, 



For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 

 bition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessaiy employees, $10.0l)(^ 



For printing labels and blanks and for the Bulletins and annnal 

 volumes of the Proceedings of the National Museum, $11,000. 



For binding scientific books and pamphlets presented to and accpiired 

 by the National Museum library, $1,000. 



For expenses of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele 

 phonic service for the National Museum, $13,000. 



For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National 

 Museum, $500. 



For tearing down and rebuilding the brick walls of the steam boilers, 

 providing tie rods and buck staves and grates for the same, removing, 

 rei)lacing, and resetting the fronts, and replacing wornont boiler tubes, 

 and for covering heating pipes with fireproof material, including all 

 necessary labor and material, $4,000. 



For rent of workshops for the National Museum, $600. 



On the 1st day of July, 1894, the National Museum had to its credit 

 the following sums, viz: Appropriation for 1893 (balance), $3L*9.2S; 

 appropriation for 1894 (balance), $6,165.03; appropriation for 1895, 

 $171,000, making a total of $177,594.31. This amount was divided 

 among the different appropriations as follows: 



Preservation of collections: 



1893 $318.02 



1894 4, 180. 20 



1895 143,000.00 



$147,498.22 



Furniture and fixtures; 



1893 .16 



1894 80:i24 



1895 10, 000. 00 



10, 803. 40 



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